Word: existing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist. If the club on the other hand is to be simply a meeting place little less general than the yard, and every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with the hope of meeting the men whom he meets every...
...loss of A": "Without X Harvard has no chance at the championship": and so on ad nauseum. And often too, there is some truth in these statements. For, relying on the powers of a few men, we have made no attempt to bring out the skill which may exist in other quarters. Hence, we have substantially to start afresh whenever a team loses several of its strongest...
...well worn and old that we have been even accused of inserting them regularly whenever there was a lack of fresh ideas to supply the mighty engines of our brains. This is a hopeful sign. It indicates that old Harvard is such a perfect college that there exist only two or three imperfections to make its perfections felt...
...palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace; its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus; - with North Arabia; - with Persia The reciprocal influence of Babylonian and Assyrian art and the artistic development of the peoples...
...entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such a state of affairs should exist...